Let’s Look at the New Cards Coming via Hearthstone: The Witchwood

Darkness lurks within The Witchwood™, the upcoming expansion for Blizzard Entertainment’s smash-hit digital card game Hearthstone®. Soon, players will join Gilneas’ most cunning and courageous heroes as they venture into the haunted forest to hunt down monsters and outwit witches to claim their bounty in the form of 135 hair-raising cards, complete with some uncanny new gameplay mechanics.

All new Hearthstone: The Witchwood Cards

FRIGHTENING DECK BUILDING CHALLENGES AWAIT

• HAUNTING NEW KEYWORD: ECHO – Exemplifying the spooky feel of the set, cards with the Echo keyword create a copy of themselves in the player’s hand when played. These ghastly copies can be played again and again (as long as the player has enough mana!) before disappearing at the end of the turn.

All new Hearthstone: The Witchwood Cards

• EVEN/ODD COST CARDS – Several minions in The Witchwood will reward you for building a deck using only even- or odd-cost cards, including two neutral Legendary minions: o Genn Greymane: If your deck has only even-cost cards at the start of the game, your starting Hero Power costs one mana. o Baku the Mooneater: If your deck has only odd-cost cards at the start of the game, your Hero Power is upgraded.

All new Hearthstone: The Witchwood Cards

• WORGEN CARDS – Gilneans can transform between their human and wolf-like worgen forms, and so can some of the cards in The Witchwood. Each turn a worgen card is in a player’s hand, its Attack and Health are swapped, creating opportunities to play the card at just the right time.

All new Hearthstone: The Witchwood Cards

• RUSH YOUR FOES – When played, minions with the new Rush keyword can attack other minions immediately, but can’t attack the enemy Hero until the following turn.

All new Hearthstone: The Witchwood Cards

MONSTERS VERSUS MONSTERS Normally, a city surrounded by monsters would be a cause for panic . . . but Gilneas is no ordinary city, and the Gilneans are no ordinary people. Inflicted with the worgen curse, Gilneans have the means to transform into ferocious beasts and take back the forest from its twisted denizens, who have been led astray by an orc shaman known as Hagatha the Witch. In The Witchwood’s exhilarating single-player mode, Monster Hunt, Gilneas’ greatest heroes are called to cleanse the forest of this darkness. Similar to the Dungeon Run mode from Kobolds & Catacombs, players will defeat bosses and collect their bounties to build a deck that will keep them alive as they venture deeper and deeper into The Witchwood. Monster Hunt will release two weeks after The Witchwood launches.

All new Hearthstone: The Witchwood Cards

RING IN THE YEAR OF THE RAVEN

The Witchwood marks the beginning of a brand-new Hearthstone Year: The Year of the Raven! Each Hearthstone Year ushers in a fresh set of cards for the Standard format, drastically changing the meta and leading to more exploration and different deck types.

Once the Year of the Raven officially begins, the following card sets will become exclusive to Wild: Whispers of the Old Gods, One Night in Karazhan, and Mean Streets of Gadgetzan (these card packs can still be purchased via the Blizzard Shop).

In celebration of the new Hearthstone year, the feisty dryad Lunara will embark on her next journey as a Druid Hero in Hearthstone! Players who win 10 games in the updated Standard format once the Year of the Raven has begun will earn Lunara, first daughter of Cenarius!

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Hearthstone: The Witchwood is almost here, releasing on April 12. When it launches, players can get their hands on innovative new cards including echo cards, rush cards, and odd/even deck cards. So let's take a look at those cards then, shall we? Note: All the images were edited to fit this gallery. They will look like their normal pretty selves in-game.

Ed has been a proud member of the Twinfinite staff since 2014. He plays everything on everything but is particularly fond of JRPGs, MMOs, and sports. He holds a B.A. in history and political science and a M.S. in education all from the University at Albany.